The goal of the project is to ensure every child’s right to grow up in a family environment by developing patronage in local communities, improving the quality and ensuring accessibility of such care for vulnerable families with children as an alternative to residential institutions.
Project target groups include patronage carers and their volunteer assistants, potential candidates for patronage carers, staff members of services for children, enterprises, institutions and organisations providing social services in communities, employment centres, social work specialists, adopting parents, foster parents, caregivers, guardians, representatives of public and religious organisations, media representatives, trainers for candidates for family-based care and foster carers.
The project beneficiaries are:
- children in difficult life circumstances
- children left without parental care
- children under patronage and children temporarily placed in families
- children in family-based care
- children with disabilities and children raised in families of persons with disabilities
- children from large families, families in difficult life circumstances, families affected by russian military aggression.
The main objectives are to increase the number of communities with operational patronage care services for children; ensure accessibility and improve the quality of patronage care by developing and piloting the service in 15 local communities; support vulnerable families with children and ensure that decisions are made in the best interests of the child.
Within the framework of the project, the CPH Confidence specialists carry out the following activities:
– training of psychologists from 22 regions and 150 communities who will support patronage families on the ground;
– conducting webinars for parents;
– providing psychoeducation of specialists in the human-human sphere who will be involved with patronage families;
– providing supervision to psychologists in local communities;
– providing counselling to patronage families, their biological children and children who come to them.
Within the project, the CPH Confidence offers psychological support for newly created patronage families; development of parental competences and the quality of psychological services for community psychologists working locally with patronage families, large families, families with children with special educational needs, families in difficult life circumstances; psychoeducation, intervention and supervision meetings.
Until July 2025.
